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DESCRIPTION: TIME looks back at its 80 years of publishing, with a fascinating collection of changing events, breathtaking progress and memorable people, heroes and villains, dictators and martyrs, movie stars and athletes. Here are Mohandas Gandi and Pope John Paul II, Winston Churchill, and Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, and Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Henry Ford. And here are the great events that shaped our life today: Pearl Harbor and D-Day, the landing on the moon, the turnmoil of the 1960s, the dawn of the computer age. Lavishly illustrated, beautifully written, this book brings 80 years of history into compelling new life.
Synopsis
"Time" looks back at its 80 years of publishing, with a fascinating collection of changing events, breathtaking progress and memorable people, heroes and villains, dictators and martyrs, movie stars and athletes.
Table of Contents
Essay: Why history doesn't follow the rules -- 1920s: Turkey turns to the West -- Nazis' fail Putsch -- V.I. Lenin dies -- Ford originates the 40-hour work week -- Lindbergh flies the Atlantic -- First talking film -- Mickey Mouse is born -- Penicillin is discovered -- Wall Street crash -- Fateful meetings/ snapshots -- 1930s: Gandhi calls for freedom -- F.D.R. takes office -- Hollywood censors films -- A.A. is founded -- Jesse Owen triumphs over Nazi propaganda -- Superman takes flight -- Kristallnacht; Germany's prelude to genocide -- Oil is found in Saudi Arabia -- Germany invades Poland -- Fateful meetings/snapshots -- 1940s: Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister -- Japan attacks the U.S. -- Allies invade Europe -- First atom bomb is dropped -- Baseball is integrated -- India gains independence -- Breaking the sound barrier -- Jackson Pollock shows his first action painting -- Israel becomes a nation -- Mao takes power in China -- Fateful meetings/snapshots -- 1950s: Senator McCarthy launches an era of fear -- I Love Lucy debuts -- Mau Mau uprising -- DNA's structure is found -- Elvis begins recording -- Rosa Parks launches the Civil-Rights era -- Sputnik orbits Earth -- Leakeys discover man's earliest ancestor -- Fateful meetings/snapshots -- 1960s: Birth-control pill is invented -- Silent Spring sparks concern for the environment -- Vatican Council updates Roman Catholicism -- Cuban Missile Crisis threatens peace -- Martin L. King declares, "I have a dream" -- John F. Kennedy is killed -- Beatles arrive -- China's cultural revolution -- Women demand equality -- First heart transplant -- Tet Offensive turns the tide in Vietnam -- Martin L. King is killed -- Robert F. Kennedy is killed -- Gays call for equal rights -- Man lands on the moon -- Fateful meetings/snapshots.